The
Social Democratic Party won a single-seat race in Okinawa, but its national
take of the proportional representation vote continued its steady decline, from
1,420,790 (2.34%) to 1,314,441 (2.46%).
Okinawa also produced a JCP single-member district winner, and other anti-base
candidates took the other two, forcing all four LDP candidates to get in
through the proportional representation list. So yes, the Okinawa LDP will be
well-represented, the Futenma-Henoko transfer can be kept alive by cash and
sheer force, and Okinawa does not have an alternative to its current status, but
if I were Xi Jinping and I really wanted to mess with Shinzo Abe, I’d wait for
the next fatal incident to spring a deal that would be very favorable to an
independent Okinawa/Ryukyu.
Time
to rethink the overall defense doctrine itself?
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